---
title: "Legacy Themes: Customising Inputs & Widgets"
---

Style text inputs, checkboxes, toggle buttons and range sliders.

{% note %}
This page describes the grid's legacy theming system that was the default in v32 and before, for the benefit of applications that have not yet migrated to the Theming API. These themes are deprecated and will be removed in a future major version. You may want to visit the [new theming docs](./theming-widgets/) or check out the [migration guide](./theming-migration/).
{% /note %}

## Styling Text Inputs

Text inputs can be styled with a combination of CSS variables and selectors:

```css
.ag-theme-quartz {
    --ag-borders-input: dotted 2px;
    --ag-input-border-color: orange;
}
.ag-theme-quartz .ag-text-field-input {
    background-color: rgb(255, 209, 123); /* light orange */
}
.ag-theme-quartz .ag-text-field-input::placeholder {
    color: rgb(155, 101, 1); /* darker orange */
}
```

{% gridExampleRunner title="Text Input Styling" name="text-inputs"  exampleHeight=450 /%}

The CSS variables relevant to styling text inputs are:

{% apiDocumentation source="global-style-customisation-variables/variables.json" section="variables" names=["--ag-borders-input", "--ag-input-border-color", "--ag-input-disabled-border-color", "--ag-input-disabled-background-color", "--ag-input-focus-box-shadow", "--ag-input-focus-border-color", "--ag-invalid-color",  "--ag-input-border-color-invalid", "--ag-borders-input-invalid", "--ag-full-row-invalid-background-color"] config={"hideHeader": true} /%}

## Styling Checkboxes

The default styles of the grid disable the browser's native checkbox widget and create a custom appearance using icon fonts (see below for how to disable this).

See the [Custom Icons](./custom-icons/) documentation for how to replace the checkbox icons - the icons used are `checkbox-checked`, `checkbox-unchecked`, `checkbox-indeterminate`.

The colours can be controlled using the following CSS Variables:

```css
.ag-theme-quartz {
    --ag-checkbox-background-color: yellow;
    --ag-checkbox-checked-color: red;
    --ag-checkbox-unchecked-color: darkred;
    --ag-checkbox-indeterminate-color: grey;
}
```

{% gridExampleRunner title="Checkbox Styling" name="checkboxes"  exampleHeight=450 /%}

### Styling Radio Buttons

Radio Buttons, such as those in the chart settings UI, are specialised checkboxes. They respond to the same colour variables as demonstrated above. They use the `radio-button-on` and `radio-button-off` icons.

### Styling Toggle Buttons

Toggle Buttons, such as the "Pivot Mode" toggle in the above example, are specialised checkboxes. They respond to the same checkbox colour variables. In addition, they expose a few more variables for advanced customisation:

{% apiDocumentation source="global-style-customisation-variables/variables.json" section="variables" names=["--ag-toggle-button-off-border-color", "--ag-toggle-button-off-background-color", "--ag-toggle-button-on-border-color", "--ag-toggle-button-on-background-color", "--ag-toggle-button-switch-background-color", "--ag-toggle-button-switch-border-color", "--ag-toggle-button-border-width", "--ag-toggle-button-height", "--ag-toggle-button-width"] config={"hideHeader": true} /%}

## Using Browser Native Checkboxes or Creating Your Own

The default styles in `ag-grid.css` contain many CSS rules to implement the `--ag-checkbox-*` and `--ag-toggle-button-*` variables described above. If you want to use the browser's default UI or create your own then it's easier to start from a blank slate rather than attempting to override the default styles.

To achieve this, use the `ag-grid-no-native-widgets.css` CSS file instead of `ag-grid.css`.

Users of the Sass API can pass `suppress-native-widget-styling: true` to accomplish this.
